That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing my mind.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
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View profile →This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
Farting in front of Colin Firth.
Stress is bad for your health.
Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.
Comparing myself to other people.
The perimenopause.
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